Environmentalists often claim that we should listen to them and implement their proposed solutions to environmental challenges due to the “cautionary principle”. This principle holds that we should act as if dire predictions about...

Back in April 1982, the Argentinian military Junta ruling the country sent an invasion force to take over the Falklands Islands, a British overseas territory. The islands were and still are sparsely populated, with...

I fear that most people make the mistake of extrapolating the general friendliness with which we interact with others in our daily lives to the international political stage. We should remember that although we...

Democracy is facing existential peril. The threat isn’t voter intimidation, gerrymandering, voter suppression or other “classic” issues related to threats to democracy. New and emerging technologies are creating a world where the basic rules...

Critics of President Trump often point to his more “flamboyant” tweets as proof of his dangerousness on the world diplomatic stage. They decry the unfilled positions in the State Department and amongst America’s diplomatic...

I’ve written about similar thoughts several times earlier, but the facts simply keep lining up, so I’ll have another go. I don’t think it is inconceivable that Putin and his intelligence agencies have a...